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Curtis Fleming
Back for another chance! A stalwart in the Boro team for a decade, Fleming is synonymous with the Right Back position at both Ayresome Park and the Riverside. A true gent of the game with a lot of love for the club.

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Wow that is a tough one. We have enough defenders to disregard Huth and Fleming.

Mendieta was a class act but we didnt utilise his strengths enough. Geremi was outstanding in the season he was with us but like Zenden and Ziege made the error of going to a bigger club (as daft as it sounds) and became a bit part player rather than flourishing at a team that was heading in a positive direction.

I was going to pick Geremi forgetting that Mendieta had 14 as his shirt number. So have decided to pick Mendieta based on coming and staying with us.

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I was such a huge fan of Huth. And as someone pointed out it just goes to show how many good centre backs we have had over the years given Huth sometime gets overlooked.

Geremi was brillant too and I was very sad he went to Chelsea but as @Snowblind points out would we have got Mendi if Geremi had stayed? Albeit I would loved to have seen a midfield 3 of Geremi, Boateng and Mendieta in a 4.3.3 with the TLF behind Viduka and one of JFH/Yak. Given Viduka exceptional talent at playing with his back to goal i think him and Juninho would have been really great together. Anyhow, sorry, getting carried away with a fantasy of mine so back to the topic..

I will choose Mendi given he contributed more than Geremi due to staying longer.

Thank you as always for the info. When you say there are 2 lists of 8 or 9 players. Does that mean we are looking to sign 8 or 9 new players? Probs make sense if 5 out the 7 out of contract players are leaving along with a handful of loan players.

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